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mircea_popescu: notably, he has the sex-fiend ex car salesman thing. guy predicted trump!
mircea_popescu: (alte americi ie other americas was an anthology, street meet ; the lost continent ; world war last ; la vie continue)
mircea_popescu: ith substititive fantasies, lots of that sort of crud floating around at the time. liked n. spinrad's alte americi and masinaria rock&roll way better.
mircea_popescu: meteors, cancer, orcs, other ones, women, drinking, boredom...
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's very little competition going on. i have numerous memories of "teenagers trying to compete" throughout schooling - starting with say this girl in 3rd grade even. i never competed with anyone, wtf do i care.
mircea_popescu: and you have to appreciate, your particular notion of "living very long time" as summum bonum is not widely shared.
mircea_popescu: and ftr, power verticals collapse BECAUSE of appearance of the mythical beast, not the other way.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "now i know i'm pretty, but i ain't as pretty as a couple of titties"
mircea_popescu: this guy, thinks he's a nigger. got a bad scar and missing eye.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: see as a forinstance, you ~think~ that going up to some angry looking black dudes propping a streetlight in the bad part of town and sticking them up with your bare hands is "insanely suicidal risk". this is exactly not how it fucking works, as drexl explains for your benefit, if you were paying attention.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since we're discussing people in general.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448971 << mno. it's because the fella despises the huswife notions of valuation ; and knows enough about risk to understand wtf it ACTUALLY is, and has the experience of it to have verified such understanding. earlier's convo with polish econ guy related.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you'd think that, for the same reason you think all tyhe other things around this topic.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to meet a teen actually as dumb as the average adult. ignorant, sure, but that's something else.
mircea_popescu: for the record, adults are by and large MUCH dumber than teenagers. which is why i will accept a shoddy seventeen year old to serve, but not a thirty-one year old were her ass gilded.
mircea_popescu: certainlyt most of the people i cared to hang out over the years are stiff.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, hagia sofia still stands, and it carried gilded roof.
mircea_popescu: but they'll never build such a tower of babel as to actually touch the definitive-complete-actually-happens-clockwork.
mircea_popescu: hey, there's no objection to your very valid criticisms in locus.
mircea_popescu: which goes directly to your "correct program for all electrically-possible inputs". there is never going to be a very interesting program which takes an ennumeralbe list of inputs. such is the sad fate of things.
mircea_popescu: but this is a purely mental exercise, and of no particular physical relevancy, really.
mircea_popescu: sentient is in any case not the proper word. the point is that if observer future behaviour is modulated by the observation, this is one class of thing. such as is the man, or the cat. and if observer future behaviour is not so modulated, then this is another class of thing. such as a rock.
mircea_popescu: the point is that interaction changes a system and observation is not priviledged.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what you read, but human wasn't bohr's concern either.
mircea_popescu: you not familiar with the scandal where einstein wouldn't take the heisenberg uncertainity ?
mircea_popescu: you forget or simplky dunno the ridiculous phase towards the end where he was refusing various bits of physics on the grounds that they insulted his religious notions ?
mircea_popescu: this approach is so utterly naive as to rather call to mind britney spears.
mircea_popescu: for all you know, the cause and effect chain breaks down and the pistol jams BECAUSE you tied the cart to this arrangement
mircea_popescu: biggest problem with everett's notions of qm, and why bohr was a respected physicist whereas everett was a sort of h. ellison, was that he purports to have some sort of q-independent causality.
mircea_popescu: where you keep bawing on alexander's grave like some sort of future great general ? i dunno.
mircea_popescu: this isn't how it works. decent gigs, like slutty chicks, aren't "earned", especially not in the linear, old mia farrow view of earning.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i have learned that: a) there is ~0 demand for the things i know how to do among honest-work folks b) the folks who ~are~ hiring reversers, CAN'T FIND them << "socialism works" in other words.
mircea_popescu: but that is then. now - people link to whatever they want and it's what it is.
mircea_popescu: i can see why pre-dragon log would link to itself rather than build an outside dependency. who even knows how long the old log website will last.
mircea_popescu: davout for my curiosity, did you move the hotwallet funds or did you pass the codebase along with the hotwallet ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: generally, it's the one thing most hideously implemented anywhere.
mircea_popescu: phf i bet you the reason ghetto beats regexp is that regexp is horribly implemented in w/e you use.